Complexity and the arrow of time

TLDR: A simple treatment of complexity: cosmological entropic boundary conditions on increasing complexity and the role of generative entrenchment and robustness in the evolution of complexity.

Abstract: 1. What is complexity? Is it increasing? Charles H. Lineweaver, Paul C. W. Davies and Michael Ruse 2. Directionality principles from cancer to cosmology Paul C. W. Davies 3. A simple treatment of complexity: cosmological entropic boundary conditions on increasing complexity Charles H. Lineweaver 4. Using complexity science to search for unity in the natural sciences Eric J. Chaisson 5. On the spontaneous generation of complexity in the universe Seth Lloyd 6. Emergent spatiotemporal complexity in field theory Marcelo Gleiser 7. Life: the final frontier for complexity? Simon Conway Morris 8. Evolution beyond Newton, Darwin, and entailing law: the origin of complexity in the evolving biosphere Stuart A. Kauffman 9. Emergent order in processes: the interplay of complexity, robustness, correlation, and hierarchy in the biosphere D. Eric Smith 10. The inferential evolution of biological complexity: forgetting nature by learning to nurture David C. Krakauer 11. Information width: a way for the second law to increase complexity David Wolpert 12. Wrestling with biological complexity: from Darwin to Dawkins Michael Ruse 13. The role of generative entrenchment and robustness in the evolution of complexity William C. Wimsatt 14. On the plurality of complexity-producing mechanisms Philip Clayton Index.